Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational advantage. With the new House Plan must come the dissolution of the very definite groups of like-minded young men who have traditionally inhabited Harvard's "Gold Coast" (Mt. Auburn Street). The House Plan, according to its prime mover, was calculated to eliminate cabals brought together by "wealth and origin.".... In spite of the fact that it is contrary to the spirit of the new system, Juniors Barry Wood and Charles Cunningham, room-mates, footballers, hockeyists, demanded that they be allowed to move into Lowell House with 25 of their cronies, a two-year-old clique. This the authorities...
...keep them informed of our technical progress. All this we are doing at cost. If we were simply selling our product we could do so at considerably less trouble than this, but we think that Russia needs modern industry and more particularly the automotive industry in order that the wealth of the country may be opened up. Otherwise it will remain one of the sore spots of the world...
...American cannot benefit at the expense of the foreigner. He cannot take away the wealth of the foreigner. For one thing, there is not enough of it. . . . Americans are not invading [Europe] they are returning home...
...Western Colorado an immense oil reserve . . . of approximately 800,000 acres in which the oil occurs in a rock called shale. . . . This oil field contains more than 40 billion barrels of petroleum of a potential value ... in excess of 40 billion dollars, equal to about one-tenth the entire wealth...
Schereschewsky and Kales, both making their debuts in Harvard football, filled in their places nicely. In fact practically all of the newcomers did better than expected. Coach Horween certainly has a wealth of good backfield material as demonstrated by the play of Forbes, Leonard, Brinkley and Record, all of whom are supplementary to the first two backfield quarters. Huguley, also in a debut, as understudy to Wood, hauled his backs in creditable fashion besides showing that his passing eye might also be of service...